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Wednesday Club shapes Senate GOP bloc in Nixon era
The Wednesday Club, a loose Republican caucus including William Saxbe and Robert Taft, forms a powerful veto group in the Senate. They back or block White House policies, influence Supreme Court nominees, Laos and Vietnam policy, and consumer economic moves, while widening GOP base beyond traditional blocs.
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Washington
Senate
Richard M. Nixon
Capitol
White House
Supreme Court
Clement P. Haynesworth
G. Harrold Carswell
New York
Charles Goodell
Nixon
Congress
Oregon
Mark O. Hatfield
James Pearson
Kansas
Hatfield
Jacob K. Javits
Mike Mansfield
U.S
Indochina
Laos
Cambodia
Thailand
Lockheed
Sen
Robert J. Dole
Kership
William B. Saxbe
Robert Taft
Ohio
J. Glenn Beall
Charles McC. Mathias
Maryland
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
Charles Percy
Illinois
Edward Brooke
Massachusetts
Richard Schweiker
Pennsylvania
Lowell Weicker
Connecticut
Clifford P. Case
New Jersey
Ted Stevens
Alaska
Caleb Boggs
Javits and Pearson
Marlon Cook
Hugh Scott
Wednesday Club